Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease Diagnosed 7.5 Years after Occupational Exposure

Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease Diagnosed 7.5 Years after Occupational Exposure

Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease was identified in a technician who had cut her thumb while handling brain sections of mice infected with adapted BSE 7.5 years earlier. The long incubation period was similar to that of the transfusion-transmitted form of the disease.

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 2020-07, Vol.383 (1), p.83-85
Hauptverfasser: Brandel, Jean-Philippe, Vlaicu, M. Bustuchina, Culeux, Audrey, Belondrade, Maxime, Bougard, Daisy, Grznarova, Katarina, Denouel, Angeline, Plu, Isabelle, Bouaziz-Amar, Elodie, Seilhean, Danielle, Levasseur, Michèle, Haïk, Stéphane
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Sprache:eng
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Ecology, environment
Health
Human health and pathology
Infectious diseases
Laboratories
Life Sciences
Magnetic resonance imaging
Neurobiology
Neurons and Cognition
Neuropathology
Occupational exposure
Proteins
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Zusammenfassung:Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease was identified in a technician who had cut her thumb while handling brain sections of mice infected with adapted BSE 7.5 years earlier. The long incubation period was similar to that of the transfusion-transmitted form of the disease.
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMc2000687